have bad memories when it comes to this area, this is why you have lot of them moving out of their houses going to places where they deem safer, but that could probably maybe turn unexpected to, for example, like we were not expecting attack on kasin or on june or on alkarak and zahle, we could probably expect that the israelies might target densely populated areas where there are many displaced um and that could be of course is catastrophic on the humanitarian level in lebanon, but when it comes to the issues of the politics and on the frontline, these people are still supportive of the resistance in its fight in support of the palestinian resistance and gazza and now also in defense of lebanon, and and i think all the the launching of the rockets is is proof of that and a test to that that hazbullah will not be giving in, and they will not be withdrawing, and of course... and we also know now that

the israelis targeted a bridge that links syria to with lebanon in the uh matraba and the matraba crossing and so that this is also additional attack on areas that are further way also disrupting the movement of displaced of people who are probably attempting to find areas inside syria to be able to take some safe haven. daniel thank you miriam and for viewers that are just uh joining us these are... we're bringing you from lebanon with regime, it's been since monday now, bombing, indiscriminate areas of lebanese territories, many of the bombs have landed in residential areas on residential infrastructure, resulting in deaths of hundreds of civilians, i believe we're well over the 600 threshold in fatalities, well over 50 children have perished, over 100 women uh medic. have been

part of the death tool as well now on monday the israeli uh military unleash attacks across lebanon on monday alone the regime killed 492 people its first day of this uh onslot including many women and children and that was perhaps one of the deadliest days in the country's history all together but the deadliest day since 2006 or deadlier possibly even then 2006 so uh it was one of the deadliest days in lebanese history. just put it into perspective, intense clashes are still now underway between the regime and lebanese resistance movement, hezbollah as a two sides have traded uh fire mainly along southern lebanese border areas and also hezbulah has hit uh targets deep inside the occupied palestinian um territory with abrages of uh rockets we have seen uh moments of calm but as madi um just mentioned our

favorite correspondent, they have been followed by um um more uh back and forth uh attacks um at times when uh the resistance doesn't immediately retaliate, it kind of throws the israelis off guard, they don't know what to expect um but uh the israeli military has carried out fresh air strikes on several cities today including tire and and kana the mariam just shared with us uh regime airways have also targeted. number of areas in the bak region causing several fatalities uh there now over 30 people have so far been killed in regime's air strikes and artillery uh shelling since dawn thursday which was uh basically in local time this morning now that includes uh 23 even syrian nationals with children being among those killed uh meanwhile the uh lebanese resistance has been of carrying out retaliatory strikes against is... really targets as i just mentioned deep

inside uh occupied territories is really official say number of explosions were heard in several uh areas in northern territories including upper um galilee the acre and uh haifa they say some 200 rockets were fired only on the city of suffed in the past 24 hours and if i uh pronounce a one of these uh small city names i want to apologize to... viewers, especially if you are lebanese and if you're sensitive about my pronunciations here, there are so many names of cities that are trickling in, i don't have the lot of time to try to uh pronunciate check them really quick, but nevertheless apologize if do get one of these names wrong uh adding half the displaced residence do not have shelters right now to go to uh miriam just shared with us, there are some people that have opened up their homes to relatives and family member. and uh some homes have dozens

upon dozens of people crammed inside trying to get away from areas that have been under um bombardment over last two or three days but nevertheless, as we mentioned earlier, it's been very unpredictable where the regime is targeting or going to target, and therefore uh, places that have been targeted, even though residents may be evacuating those areas, there is no guarantee that the place they will be going to won't be the next target for the zionist entity uh, joining us now also on online we have miriam sal our press tv correspond and joining us out of uh beirot and uh before i swing back to marian we have to mention that uh the un general assembly has been underway throughout the last three or four days that we have seen these unrelenting israely attacks on lebanon. we have heard world leaders at the general assembly and a special uh session of the security council to address uh lebanon just last night um all trying to condemn the uh

regime for what it's done for the terrorist attacks using a communications devices on tuesday and wednesday of last week leaving dozens killed and thousands injured. civilian population populated areas of lebanon, with respect to the uh escalation of the last three or four days, um, basically urging uh leaders in tel aviv of the zinus entity to deescalate immediately and out turn, we have heard this reference uh lebanon into another uh gaza, it has fallen on uh deaf ears for the most part iran's foreign minister um has warned of potential un uh precedented catastrophe in west asia due to israel's aggression and what he called heinous crimes against regional nationschi made those remarks uh while emer addressing that emergency meeting i just told you guys about at the un security council last night to um

address these uh attacks on lebanese soil uh the top uh diplomat said the only way to prevent further escalation is uh for israel stop its war on gaza and ending attacking lebanon immediately. now these were words that were echoed not just by iran's foreign minister abbas shee, but uh for the most part for the majority of uh world leaders uh that addressed the general assembly over last three days and that security council session and last week's security council session with respect to the uh communication devices, the thousands that went off, pagers, walkie talkees uh uh "there have been two uh emergency sessions at the security council now addressing is really crimes against the people of lebanon, they have both resulted in nothing but mirror condemnations and uh even the un general assembly, most world leaders use their time to address the 11 months of a

campaign of genocide in gaza and imploring the world to ramp up pressure on the israeli regime for not to continue to accept a cease fire and not continue with its camp. campaign against gazins, not to expand it into the occupied west bank and immediately stop its expansion of the conflict into lebanese uh uh territory. joining us uh now is mr uh professor sad nimmer i believe from uh if i'm not wrong i right professor of political science joining us out of occupied romala hello uh professor pleasure to check in with you it's always a great to get your perspective on things um we're going on on three or four days now of these uh is really air strikes on lebanon, please tell us from your perspective what is at stake and what kind of escalation is possibly on the horizon and how will that impact the region? good afternoon for you and all your viewers, well you know when we are talking about this

situation, the new situation, it proves that how stupid are this regime, the this entity, because by the end of the day they are not willing apparently to go... into a land invasion, because they do know that will be not only costly, but the declaration of their you know immediately problems and immediate victory for for hazballah and lebanon, so because of that i think they are reluctant, they want escalate the situation by bombarding parts of lebanon, but at the same time they are not you know prepared to... to go in, though they are threatening of doing that, and all the time they are, we have the plans and we have, i don't know what, and we prepared our troops, but in reality they know that it it will be, you know, deadly move for them, definitely, and is waiting this moment, as said, he issued that, and he talked about

that in one of his speeches and he said, we are looking forward for you to come into lebanon, so we can, at least not looking for looking for. your soldiers, they will be here in in in our land, but what's going on, as i believe, this keinness by the united states and france and bringing... this initiative for stop stop the the war in in lebanon particularly and talking about initiative and even the americans were very optimist to talk about three four hours and you few hours and this will be done, it's it's indicates that israel is in trouble, they are trying to you know put the rope for for netanyahu to come down, because what's what else? what else could he do apart from this bombardment that

he is trying now to separate the people from hizballah and try to aggravate the people against hizballah nothing nothing else he can't do anything else eventually he will come to uh you know a time when they have to set into negotiation uh the problem with israel and the american behind them are talking about these initiatives they want to give the israeli the victory. in the diplomatic way since they couldn't have it in in on the ground in guess that they can't say that they won, they did nothing and hamas is still there, palestinian resistance still there and they couldn't end it or achieve any the goals they sit forward before the war, the same now with hizballah in in lebanon, they are not going to achieve anything at all, so any stop of the war now from their perspective is a declaration of a defeat, so because of that, um, the americans and others

are trying to make initiatives which will which will be in for the sake of israel, not for the sake of the palestinians in gaza or in lebanon for hizballah, so because of that we have to be very, very careful about you, reading these kind of initiatives and why now, and why you can now pressurize israel for this initiative to stop the war in in in in lebanon, and for a whole year you couldn't stop. netanyahu and his government in continuing their genocidal war in gaza, so it's quite fishy these kind of initiatives, because i believe that the israeli want to come down things and that's the only way to do it, and by, the americans, the french initiative, in order to say, yeah, we finished the war and we return back our settlers to their homes, but this, this is can't be, you know, going without a price, what? is it in in it for hizballah and he insists that we won't stop the war unless the

war on gaza stopped so it's it's very complicated at this moment but i believe that all these initiatives trying to uh you know um save israel and save uh netanyahu particularly from the problem that he put himself and thank you professor um also joining us mr muhammad kassim political analyst out of beirot. uh, do we have mr. muhammad kassim online? mr. kassim, if you hear us, welcome to the conversation. sir, uh, your initial thoughts on what the regime is after with this escalation on lebanese territory. uh, first of all, we have to say that the israelis are trying their best to undermine the the power of the lebanese resistance. and to try to make kind of a an atmosphere of the incubating environment

which is around or and raising it against the resistance and as you as everybody knows today that after this escalation of the israelis genocide and aggression and crimes that is practiced against the libanese. mainly against the innocent people, children and women, i think that netanyahu himself and his government or cabinet had reached a a critical point politically and military, politically, he was, he is unable to achieve one of the targets that he was aiming at, neither in gaza nor in lebanon, in gaza, his his main, his main target was to release... all the hostages and empower or to make to to

to take out the power that hamas and palestinian resistance gain and they have and at the same time spreading the zionist army around all around gaza as a first step to put on the zionist army on all palestine. this is on the palestine side on on the lebanese side. they are, they are, their target is to to to make separation between the the union that is taken place between the resistance of lebanon and that of... palestine, especially with gaza, and that the track that the the lebanese resistance had taken, that it is directly related to that with gaza, now they are pressing against lebanon in order to make him retreat, or at least to make kind of reconciliation with them, that the pressure

they they are practicing on the lebanese would lead to separate the... track, but what we can say now is the the crimes that are practiced by this, by the the the rates that are or the miles that are sent to the population all over lebanon, would this lead to to achieve the target of the israelis in lebanon, they they want the targets of the israel in lebanon can be limited in this way: first of all, they wanted the separation between the axis that is taking place. second, pushing the the the resistance to the north of litani, it means under the cover of the decision or the decree 1701, three,

trying to to invade the south, and we should not, we should not forget. that netanyahu during the last meeting or in in in mars when he was in the united nations and he spoke against, he spoke openly saying that the limits or the borders of israel is from afrotite to the the middle east, all all the they are talking about the the middle east, the new middle east, the new israel that cover... iraq, syria, lebanon and the other countries, his dream is not is not did not fade, he is still thinking or he is planning for that, that's why he cannot retreat, just because he had he failed to achieve the targets in gaza, now he wants to make pressure on lebanon, and also he he he knows

that the libanese resistance is not the same as the... the gazons are surrounded with with arab arab countries that help or they are supporting israel and the sand and the sea, while the borders of lebanon and the resistance in lebanon had all kinds of the tracks that can help the resistance to gain power and to have people as well as military. as weapons and so on, and up till now, what israel had done in lebanon did not make kind of a wink in in in the lebanese opinion or the decision that we have to face, and if we

if we go to through the two three days behind, we can find that the resistance... had began to send missiles for five kilos, eight kilos, 20 kilometers and lately they sent to haifa, to hakka, to safat and to other to other areas where they are unable to make the northern citizens come back to their homes, if they have now 100 thous displaced people, 'who had left the the the north zone, now they have not less than 500 to 1 million civilians who are now either in shelters or they are around the shelters and we should not forget that the lebanese resistance had sent a very sensitive and very important message when they sent a ballistic missile to

tel aviv and in this way'. "they are telling them that we are not, up till now we are not using more than 10% of our strategic weapon or weapons, that's why the aggression did not achieve any of its aims, one of the things that it achieved is that they killed hundreds of lebanese, and i don't know if you are hearing me, yes we are, are you here?" me now, yes, yes, can you hear us? okay, okay, the the one one of the achievements that the zionist state had achieved in lebanon during the last four days is the killing of or we have six to 1000 marters mostly of children and of women who were living at their homes

and the destroying their homes over their heads, making their houses rubbles and so on, but they did not achieve any single target in the south or in making the lebanese... uh submit to their will, and and i can't say now, if they are targeting the south, of course, the the southerns, lebanese southerns had left the, most of them had left the area, and this is, it has positive and negative results, the negative is that they left their homes, but the positive is that the land is free now, that any attack... by the israelis against the southern area, the the the resistance, the libanese resistance is free to face as what happened in 2006, and that's

why netanyahu and his team are now calculating very strict, very mr. kassim, allow me to come back to you because i also have another guest, we have simultaneously, you're joining us with a professor sad nimmer out of ramala, let me ask get... him a couple minutes to speak and then i'll come right back to you uh if i may apologize for cutting you off professor nimber i mean if uh we witnessed a gaza seizfire after the us proposed a plan that palestinians accepted back early july we would not be here at this juncture today you very well know why is the regime choosing once again the path of death and destruction instead of peace and stability instead of getting out supposedly it cares so much about its captives. it could uh basically get its troops out of gaza, put an end to the genocide, get its captives, have some kind of prisoner exchange uh deal struck, if we they were accepted, which you

very well know hamas and the biden administration wanted that proposal accepted back early july, right now we'd be in the middle of implementation where uh they would have got their prisoner exchange uh de deal done and we may be witnessing the first chapters of a long and arduous reconstruction of gaza and hopefully you ultimately leading to rebuilding a gaza back to either what it was or even better, but instead we are looking at expansion, why is in your from your perspective, the regime always choosing this path, and supposedly, and i don't how sincere it is, all of its allies wanted to accept a permanent seas far, it refuses to do so, it's opting for expanding this into lebanese territory, well how is that cefire not the most entertaining and most attractive? for the regime at this point, well yes, this is absolutely right, if we look at what netanyahu and his government are acting in in what way, they are acting as if

they are victorious, so they want to see fire, but this sease fire should be according to their terms, that's why in gaza it didn't work because they want to continue occupying gaza and at the same time they want to release the prisoners captive by the palestinian authority, sorry by the palestinian resistance, so it's quite clear that they are trying to put their own condition to solve the problem. now with lebanon is the same, so i think that the link between both issues, what kind of terms that would hamas accept or hisballah accept in order to seiz fire? the problem with israel, they want to make kind of victory always out these negotiations, so they put their terms and netanyahu arrogantly saying no, are not going to agree to the the new initiative talking about, the american talking about, and we are continuing in our work, he's trying to say that we are still have the

ability to do it, while in reality they don't, they don't, and i don't think that israel could handle another seven week, seven days or 10 days of of the bombardment of hazballah, and they know, though they try to make it publicly in a different uh... way, but they know that they didn't harm hisballah in these operations lately, and all the they did, as your guest said in lebanon, that they managed only to kill civilians, that's the only thing they managed to do, but to harm hisballah and hazballah's rockets or his ability to send rockets, so far hazballah used only one strategic which is kader only once, and all the time he is using. or is using you know fadi one, two and three, which is middle range kind of of of rockets, so the the real weapon in hands of of of...

hazballah haven't been out yet, so the israeli do know that, but they want to say that we destroyed hazballah and we destroyed i did the same idea when they got into rafah and they said we destroyed the the brigades of qassaam in rafah and the resistance in rafah and yet today today we are talking about a convoy of of tanks and and buldozers were were hit three of them at the same at the same time the same moment. so we know that how they lie and they want to make a big fust out of what's going on and that they are tough and they can still going on in this war, but in reality they don't, but they want to gain as much as they could to you know give kind of an victory in front of the public and in front of the world that israel wasn't you defeated, but in reality yes if we

continue with this battle the they will... declare their defeat immediately, because in gaza, if netanyahu signed an agreement to stop or to see fire and to stop you know the war, it means that he's declaring his defeat, because he couldn't achieve any of his aims, neither getting rid of the palestinan resistance nor getting the prisoners out as he thought, so he didn't achieve anything, so if they stopped the war, it means this is second defeat for him after the 7th of october. the same now with hizballah, if he stopped the war, it means what, on on what basis, hizballah is linking his this war with gaza, and he said clearly, stop the war in gaza, we will stop, we we are not interested in enlarging the scale of of this war, but apparently not the israeli, the israeli they are not able, they would love to do it, make it even regional, but they can't do it without at least the help of america, and

apparently america is... a little bit reluctant in getting involved in a regional war, because that will be also devastating for them, they don't have the ability, they don't have the enough troops, their their bases all around the middle east will be targeted, so they know that it's it's not in their in their favor or sake, but netanyahu is insisting you know in either pulling them in to this war, or at least now he want to get out of this situation, by declaring victory somehow, we managed to push back hizballah seven or 10 kilometers to alitani river and this is he will consider it kind of victory, but why hasballah will do that? it's not defeated, you are the one who's going to be defeated, but he is acting as victorious, which is something you know in his mind and his mentality, and also he's trying to say that we israel is still strong and we still have the ability and we didn't lose the war,

but if we waited or... so as i said 10 days later uh israel can't handle it neither internally nor in the term of the army itself can handle what's going on for longer period. thank you. mr. mohammed kasim um professor saudimer said a couple of interesting things there and i i want to if your perspective differs from his as to why the regime did not opt for the permanent cease fire get your captives. go home, let gazans rebuild, you will not see any more attacks coming from iraq, from yemen, from hezbollah, from uh palestinian resistance, everybody can try to work b on calm and restoring peace uh, but instead the regime is chosing once again the path of violence, why uh, well, netanyahu now is very critical situation, his legs are...

the mud now uh he raised the war against ghazza or or first he raised the war against all the arabs when he confessed that he wanted to regain or to re or to establish the great israel uh this one the second one the plans that were that were prepared before the 7th of october 2023. and what how the uh going on with the arab countries and the normalization and and how he was planning to uh control all palestine and what's was going on west bank and all over palestine, all these now led to this war. now the position of netanyahu now is very critical because the

track of this war. the track of this war against gaza and against lebanon, or the access also is planning that the first step for the final or the... achieving the aim of regaining palestine, it is the first step, it is on the track now, although it's not achieved now, but it had very steady step for the future that this track had been taken as decision by by the arab resistance or by the lebanese, palestinian, iraqis and the other resisting forces. now netanyahu cannot accept, netanyahu cannot accept any agreement now uh as well as the lebanese resistance and the gazans will not accept it now, they if if

they accepted it, if the if the lebanese accepted it, they had uh gained a very great step for victory, while netanyahu if he said that i will make seasfire. for the sake of releasing the hostages or the captives and make or and i have weakened hamas and so on, he cannot face his public opinion, he cannot face the israelis, even even the will the united states would not accept this one, they wanted to make kind of tricky plan for this negotiation that is taking place in the united states now, they are trying to to separate the lebanese out of the gazans and to make kind of a split between them and this the lebanese and this is for the first time the leban